91勛圖厙 to host conference on embodying justice
Eric King Watts泭of the University of North Carolina at泭Chapel Hill will deliver the 2018 Josephine Jones lecture on Flesh to Speech: The Problem of Racism for Public Address.泭泭
Watts, an associate professor at UNCs Department of Communication, will explore the ways in which public voice is invented, performed, consumed泭and suppressed, with particular attention paid to black public voice.泭泭
The annual public lecture seriesprimarily organized by the Center for Communication and Democratic Engagementis funded through a bequest by Josephine B. Jones and co-sponsored by the 91勛圖厙 Department of Communication; the College of Media, Communication and Information and others.泭
The lecture will serve as the keynote for the 30th anniversary of the泭, an annual event that brings together top scholars of rhetoric and politics to analyze and engage pressing civic issues, from ancient times until today.
This years conference theme, Embodying Justice, will involve discussions of race, education, reproduction, climate, the economy, immigration, queer memory and more.
The conference will take place Thursday, Sept. 27, through Saturday, Sept. 29.
The Josephine Jones lecture is free and open to the public, as are two afternoon pre-conference roundtables on education and justice. Other PAC sessions required registration, which is now closed.
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